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CORSET FABRIC.

Patented July 17, 1883 FIGJ INVEN'TOR .WITNESSES N. PETERS. Pho loljfl ugrlphnr. WiIhinM D- C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOHN G. KIENZLE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE F. HENSEIJ, OF SAME PLACE.

CORSET- FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming. part of Letters Patent No. 281,519,dated July 1'7, 188?.

Application filed August 10. 1882. (No model.)

, the object of my invention being to produce a corset which, while as serviceable as a corset made entirely of silk, and presenting a surface bearing a close resemblace to that of an all-silk corset, can be produced at much less cost.

Inthe accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a diagram showing a piece of fabric as woven for the manufacture of a corset, and Fig. 2 a perspective diagram illustrating my invention.

In the manufacture of that class of corset fabrics which are woven in one piece, the use of silk has not hitherto been considered practicable, owing to the expense.

In carrying out my invention I use by preference a warp of silk and a weft of cotton or other inferior thread, woven with a warp twill, so that one surface of the fabric is composed principally of silk, the cotton weft not being sufficiently prominent to detract from the general silken appearance of this face of the fabric. On the other face of the fabric the'cotton is predominantin the same degree as the silk on the opposite face; but in making up the corset the cotton face forms the inside, and is therefore not objectionable.

In making corset fabrics it is usual to weave the fabric double at certain points, so as to form pockets 00, for the reception of the stiffening-ribs. This necessitates a division of the warp at these points, one half forming part of the rear web, y, and the other half forming y, and both webs being If a cotton weft is used in this part of the face-web woven plain.

portion of the fabric, it will detract from the appearance of the corset, owing to the greater prominence given to the weft on account of the plain weave and the less number of warps used in the surface-web y. Hence in weaving these pockets I propose to use a silk weft, at least in the surface-web, so will present a face wholly of silk. WVhere the inferior thread used is woolen or' worsted instead of cotton, the use of the silk weft in forming the pockets is not so essential; but it is preferred, even in such a case.

Instead of using a silk warp and a cotton or other inferior weft, I may use the inferior that each pocket thread in the warp and the silk in the weft,

in which case a weft twill would form the surface of the fabric. ferred for the pockets, because, as the warps are divided to form the pockets, it is advisable to have the wefts interwoven as closely as possible with the warps at these points.

I claim as my invention- 1. The within-described corset fabric, having one set of threads-either warp or weft-of silk and the other set of cotton or inferior yarn, the body of the fabric being single and woven with a twill, but having at intervals pockets of double fabric woven plain, as set forth.

2. A corset fabric having in the body a warp of silk and a weft of cotton or inferior thread, woven with a warp twill, as described, and having pockets woven with a silk weft, as specified.

The plain weave is pre- In testimony whereof I have signed my name j JOHN KIENZLE.

WVitnesses J. ELLIOTT TATEM, SAML. B. S. EARTH. 

